Simply, how do I play against 1-3 other AI players?

[=MAG=JBBlack]

No special thrills, I don't want to design or create any opponents I just want to play a round of gold against 3 other AI controlled players, and it would be nice if they weren't ALL wearing the same clothes...

, It's confusing to me how this even gets done, I should be able to just add my player, select the type of match, select the course and conditions, and then select how many (and who) I want to play against and be done, but apparently there is more to it.

Also, is there no way to play against (not as) one of the AI pros/celebs?

Thanks

[Power_Bert]

Choose casual, choose a course and gametype. Press "X" to add more players. Choose ghosts of your liking.
If you want to see them make their shots you need to activate "Turn order" in the match settings.

There you go.


Sadly there doesnt seem a way to play against Tiger Woods or any other celebrity player which is quite bad.

[Kate Miller]

Adding to previous reply.

When selecting ghosts, take careful note of which colour tee and which pin number they used. Regardless of what tee and pin you want to use, they will play off whatever the ghost round played on.

That's the downside with ghost players. It is like chasing a ghost lap in a racing game, you know what their final score is going to be. You're not actually competing, rather trying to match a preset.

Just for kicks I decided to play with myself (oh stop giggling, you stupid boys). My own ghost was kitted out in exactly what my current outfit was rather than the one when the ghost round was set. Looked odd in the cut scenes when they walked together down the fairway together. To tell them apart my current caddie had found a cap from somewhere.

I tried again, cranking the wind up to Very High. My round was all over the place but the ghost was unchanged.

[Power_Bert]

Originally posted by Kate Miller:

Adding to previous reply.

When selecting ghosts, take careful note of which colour tee and which pin number they used. Regardless of what tee and pin you want to use, they will play off whatever the ghost round played on.

That's the downside with ghost players. It is like chasing a ghost lap in a racing game, you know what their final score is going to be. You're not actually competing, rather trying to match a preset.

Just for kicks I decided to play with myself (oh stop giggling, you stupid boys). My own ghost was kitted out in exactly what my current outfit was rather than the one when the ghost round was set. Looked odd in the cut scenes when they walked together down the fairway together. To tell them apart my current caddie had found a cap from somewhere.

I still dont understand why its not possible to just choose a difficulty and play against a bot. I dearly miss that feature since the beginning of HB Studios golf games.
Would it be that hard to implement?

[Kate Miller]

Originally posted by Power_Bert:

I still dont understand why its not possible to just choose a difficulty and play against a bot. I dearly miss that feature since the beginning of HB Studios golf games.
Would it be that hard to implement?

True. In the PGA career, you have the option to customise the opponents ability by percentage and/or setting a range in which they will tend to score. This can be adjusted until you get the right balance.

Presumably, it would need extra coding to randomly create the 'new' players and doubtless that would lead to people then wanting to customise the appearance. That in turn would need a category for customised ghosts in the opponents list and that would be an open invitation for abuse with cheated scores. If they could code it, then the random players would be use once then recreate if necessary.

[=MAG=JBBlack]

Humm, interesting, thank you for the kind info.

I wonder though, if they could just take like 20 or 30 ghosts rounds and just apply those to a bot player and have those run randomly, that way it would appear that the bots play a different round each time on each course.

I don't think it would be that difficult, I used to play Links on a DOS PC back in the early 90's (1990 I think, to be exact), and somehow they pulled it off and nobody died, certainly with all this new technology they could somehow recreate that type of thing.

Anyways, thank you everyone, and Power-Bert you laid it out pretty good for me, thanks for helping an old guy out.

[pizza7]

Originally posted by =MAG=JBBlack:

Humm, interesting, thank you for the kind info.

I wonder though, if they could just take like 20 or 30 ghosts rounds and just apply those to a bot player and have those run randomly, that way it would appear that the bots play a different round each time on each course.

I don't think it would be that difficult, I used to play Links on a DOS PC back in the early 90's (1990 I think, to be exact), and somehow they pulled it off and nobody died, certainly with all this new technology they could somehow recreate that type of thing.

Anyways, thank you everyone, and Power-Bert you laid it out pretty good for me, thanks for helping an old guy out.

soem aspects are weak in this game , always have been.
i do find it fun to play as the pro-players tho.

[=MAG=JBBlack]

Worked like a charm, but I seemed to have only about 14 ghost games to choose from? Unless I'm not seeing a setting to see more?

BUT, a cool thing also happened, one of the Ghosts I played MUST have been playing as Michael Jordan, because MJ was one of my opponents!!

not perfect, but kinda cool

[Kate Miller]

Depends which course you have selected as some might have been used much to date. I picked one of the 'other' courses at random and it hasn't been played at all so far.

Just for giggles. Use the Search option when changing course. Enter FBM as the search. This will find the 9-hole course. FBM Acres. Check out the thumbnail. Brilliant!